# Karen Blixen

> She turned a failed coffee farm and a broken marriage in colonial Kenya into Out of Africa, then spent the rest of her life writing stories so strange and precise they nearly won her a Nobel Prize — except the committee worried it would look like Scandinavian favoritism.

*Danish writer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/karen-blixen

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1885-04-17
- **Died:** 1962-09-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born Karen Dinesen on 17 April 1885 into Danish nobility, she later became Baroness von Blixen-Finecke and lived in Kenya, where the unraveling of her life there became the material for Out of Africa. She wrote under several names — Isak Dinesen in English, Tania Blixen in German, and the odder Osceola and Pierre Andrézel — and her Seven Gothic Tales made her name in Denmark and the United States. "Babette's Feast," one of her stories, became a film that won an Academy Award, as did the adaptation of Out of Africa. She kept writing story collections through the decades: Winter's Tales in 1942, Last Tales in 1957, Anecdotes of Destiny in 1958, and Ehrengard in 1963, a year after her death on 7 September 1962. The Nobel committee circled her repeatedly but never landed, afraid of appearing to favor their own region.

## Fame
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## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227598/ (@nm0227598)
- **WEBSITE**: http://karenblixen.com

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Stand Up, #Poetry, #Painting, #20th Century

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